Ben / PA

I had a rough rut as far as deer sighting were concerned. Our season went out this past Saturday. I was just enjoying my first real night of just coming home after work and doing normal things for a week or two until I have to supervise the Slaughtering Snipers of gun season at my cabin, making sure they don't shoot all of the potential for next year. As I was letting my shorthaired pointer out, I thought "wouldn't it be just fitting if a herd of deer ran by about now?" I live just outside of town, butfar enoughto plan on seeing deer regularly. Well, you guessed it, three doe trot by and now instead of finishing the flooring, I have to sit here looking out the window for the buck that might be following. She's gonna love me when she gets home.

burniegoeasily

Thats how it always goes. Ill go out hunting, get back to my lake cabin to find deer in the front yard.[:@]

NC_ImPulse

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In the part of North carolina that i live in, hunting is a big part of life, i was raised on hunting Deer , but was never tought the right way to hunt. Watching Buck Masters and Real Tree hunting shows in my 30's i learned how to do alot diffrent things to help me in the field . Deer in this part of the country are few and far between a 130 class deer here is big to most people. My wife and I started hunting together on a 63 acre lot that was in the city limts of the town we lived in, but on the outer edge. I never would have thought that there was so many deer that close to town limits, i was able to lease this land in med season . We just watched the deer that season and set the land up for the following year for Bow hunting only .Opening day i was in my stand and it was 90 degrees , never thought i'd see anything , but outa no where here was 5 deer right in front of me 25 yards away ( 2 bucks 3 does )here i was and couldn't move , sweet was dripping every where and i was waiting to get winded , but the wind stayed in my favor all the deer stepped out of view but one . An 8 point in full velvet so i took my first good buck with a bow. The same year i got a smaller buck and a doe in the first month and half , the owner sold the land, that was the end of that hunting season, and that was the best year i ever had and lost my land to new houses ! A few years later i got promission to hunt on the back side of a hundred acres hunted for 3 years and took quiet a few nice deer .And in Nov. of 2005 my son and i was rebiulding our permanent tree stand getting ready for the rut and the opening gun of season , And then it hit me, a heart attack put me out of hunting for the rest of the year , and the following year .Now this year that my Doctor told me that i could go hunting , then i got the bad news from the land owner that i couldn't hunt there any more, so now i have no where to hunt .so i sold all my hunting stuff and gave it up , people dont let you hunt like they used to, sence i can 't work any more , i can't afford to lease land so i'm just outa luck ......
; ) so good luck to all you hunters..... have fun .!

thanks
R. Dale Johnson [:'(]

dyb3and88

Had the same thing just happen to me ,,,, AGAIN!!!! there is a six point that has allot of small trees tore up in my back yard, I saw him again today when we came home from dropping my mom off at the air port. He was out there about 2 weeks ago. He didn't stick around for me to get a picture. Hope he comes back for gun season

dyb3and88

These where in my back yard last summer

Rob/PA Bowyer

I know what your sayin Ben. I was home for lunch yesterday. The dog barked at the front door, I hobbled to the window of the bedroom to look for the neighbors dog, instead I see a nice buck panting on my driveway....The doe must have went through first...he walked down my driveway and then cut into the woods.

joshw020

I feel your pain guys, lol. True story; 2 weeks ago, I'm sittin in a stand about a quarter mile from the cabin. The previous nights chili hit me likea Mack truck arround 9 am, so I ease my way out of the stand andup to the road . . .then make a mad dash sprint for the cabin. As I'm heading back out thedoor (after finishing my business), I reflecton how dead the woodshave beenall morning. But as I close the door behind me and reach for my bow. . . .that beautifull soundof crunching leaves approached. . .a big bodied 6 pointer chasing 3 does not 40 yards away! lol, soI dropped to theground and watched the awsome display for 25 minutes. . . what a great learning experience!

bowman15

I went out last saturday, but I didn't dress warm enough. By 9:00 I couldn't take it any more. I was freezing!I climbed down, went back to my van and drove to town for a cup of coffee. I came back about 45 minutes later and there was a new scrape less than 20 yards from my tree.

And last year I was leaving my spot after seeing nothing and as I was hanging off the side of my tree unfastening my stand, a deer comes walking up the trail I was setup on. I saw it just in time to see it's butt walking away.

Never fails...